Toyota UA80E / UB80E

Toyota's transverse eight-speed — in the Camry XV70 and the Highlander XU50.

It is the automatic in the cars whose siblings got the K120 CVT, which is the distinction that matters: a Camry of these years may have either, and they have nothing in common — one is a torque-converter automatic with eight fixed ratios, the other a belt CVT with a launch gear.

A shudder from rest therefore means completely different things on the two, and the advice does not transfer. Establishing which is fitted comes before anything else, and the tell is whether the engine note steps with the road speed or slides.

Its recurring complaint is a firm or hesitant 1–2 change, which responds to adaptation and to software far more often than to parts — Toyota has issued transmission control updates for exactly this.

Fluid is Toyota's WS, and on a transmission this new most examples are still on their first fill; the interval is real whatever the handbook implies.